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subbasal line strong, black, from costa to submedian fold and angled 

 outwards below costa ; antemedial line brown, oblique, slightly 

 sinuous and strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular 

 very large, V-shaped or semi- elliptical, open above, defined by black 

 below ; reniform large, incompletely deiined by black, the cell 

 before and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line with two prominent dentate black marks below costa, 

 then indistinct, formed of pale and brown scales, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 luuules ; a &ne pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale, almost 

 entirely suffused, and irrorated with brown ; cilia whitish ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hub. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type f in Coll. Piingtler, Amdo. E.vp, 

 40 millim. 



898. Lycophotia lutescens. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 31.) 



Jgrotis lutescens, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 591, pi. 14. t3a,b (1844) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 

 Agrotis dilucida, Ev. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 205 (1844). 

 Agrotis leonina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 182. 



Ochrcous ; thorax tinged with rufous ; abdomen white at base. 

 Fore wing irrorated with rufous ; the subbasal and antemedial lines 

 represented by obscure dark spots below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform small dai'k spots ; postmedial line minutely dentate, angled 

 outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards at discal fold ; a more or less prominent terminal series of 

 dark points. Hind wing white, suffused with ochreous brown on 

 terminal half. 



Hab. EussiA, Urals, 1 c?, 1 $, Sarepta. Exio. 44 millim. 



*899. Lycophotia romanovi. 



Agrotis rnmanovi, Christ. Eom. Mem. ii. p. 37, pi. 2. f. 7 (1885); Staud. 

 Cat. Lej). pal. p. 148. 



$ . Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow >, abdomen ochreous, 

 white at base. Pore Aving bright sulphur-yellow ; a diffused rufous 

 antemedial line, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; orbicular represented by a small reddish-brown spot, the 

 reniform by a small lunule ; postmedial line rufous, oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and at vein 4 ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a diffused series of dentate reddish-brown marks, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of red-brown points ; cilia rufous at tips. Hind wing ochreous 

 yellow, the costal area whitish ; the cilia pale yellow ; the underside 

 yellowish white, with the terminal area tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the postmedial line nearer the reniform, 

 more diffused and almost straight. 



Hab. Armenia, Jura, in Coll. Piingeler, Exjy. 44 millim. 



